Let’s put the Bantay Bata Jersey to rest
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That was one hell of a meeting in a function room at the Sze-chuan House at the Aloha Hotel with Sam Ekwe included. The NCAA Management committee decided to forfeit the game on July 18, 2008 with the following rule:
NCAA Rule #9 Default, Forfeiture and Fines
9.2 A team shall lose the game by FORFEITURE if and when:
9.2.1 An INELIGIBLE athlete is fielded or enters the playing court with an intent to play. He and his team shall lose the game/match BY FORFEITURE. The particular player shall be BARRED from further competition in any NCAA tournament. Moreover, the games with the team in which he played are automatically FORFEITED.
But take note, rule 9.2.1 will only apply to the July 18 game and Sam Ekwe will still be on the Red Lions bench to the Red and White banner.
When Mister Quinito Henson released his “poor taste� article, I believe he was not really aware of the facts but according to Henry Atayde, Mr. Henson will make another piece to cover the Ekwe testimony because the De La Salle community went ballistic when they read his article printed on a traditional daily.
In my previous article, I mentioned about other sports in the NCAA being smothered by numerous complaints about uniform infractions, that it was too bad it hit the most popular spectator sport in the country – Basketball, thus it becoming a big deal.
Now everybody is talking and screaming for clarity on the matter and demanded the NCAA to release the rules as public document. Don’t worry next week, the NCAA operations manual will be made available in the www.ncaa.org.ph website for download. Since we are clamoring for consistency, whether in the NCAA or the UAAP, so far, I would give the NCAA the passing mark.
The UAAP still in deaf ears on the accountability of the uniform infraction made by Ateneo during their tussle with UP. If another infraction should happen in the future in the UAAP, and some member team would file a complaint, they better make sure they know what answer to give them.
Now what about Sam Ekwe being on the interogation stand? What did he say? According to the minutes, Sam Ekwe did mention that his uniform got lost and had to bring another uniform for the game. Believe it or not, the disappearance was puzzling - he was washing his clothes, went out to dry then suddenly vanished.
He then proceeded to tell the Mancom that he doesn’t know the rules and just wants to play basketball. He further added that he did inform the coaching staff about his jersey’s abrupt flight into thin air. But is he really telling the truth? AND, are we sure that this is the first time he’d ever committed this infraction? Well, none that we know of.
NCAA Rule #6 Playing Uniform and School ID
6.1 All athletes shall wear the OFFICIAL PLAYING TEAM UNIFORM in all the games/matches of the NCAA Season.
6.Any athlete whose playing uniform does not conform to the preceding rules shall be INELIGIBLE to participate in a given game/match.
For a uniform to be declared official, the NCAA Mancom’s basis would be the jersey issued during the team’s first day of competition with school colors, sponsor logo and league logo specified under league specifications. File Photos maybe taken for cross checking and reference .
With this rule and, as usual, with all eyes on basketball, the NCAA Management Committee will create some measures to ensure that a debacle like this can be prevented. As an example, don’t be surprised when teams, before game time, will be called on center court, so that referees and game officials can run last minute checks to see if coaches and team officials would like to make any declaration with regards to whatever situation and make sure everything is in order. A commitment to create such a measure like the one which I have just mentioned was at least guaranteed to me by the NCAA Management Committee.
How about the win? Will it affect the standings? For the record, the College of St. Benilde would not want to accept this win, but since the NCAA is affiliated with FIBA, they need all results plus the details accounted for to evaluate the integrity of the league.
For now, the win by CSB or loss by San Beda in this scenario will not influence the outcome of the standings. But a CSB run in the 2nd round is also a possibility, then it becomes a factor. At least both teams are aware of their baggages come crunch time. If there is a tie, the win over the other rule will apply. If we are to key in the top four teams by far in this tournament, the CSB win will not hurt those teams currently gunning for the top four.
Now let’s put this issue to rest.
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Sam
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 at 11:47 am
Hay naku ang haba-haba ng speech mo hindi mo naman maintindihan ang bottomline dito.
Ang isyu dito e ang UNIFORM hindi ang PATCH!
Kahit ano pa ang sabihin mo kayo pa rin ang mali dito. Bakit hindi sinabi ng coaching staff niyo sa league officials na nawala ang uniform ni ekwe? Kasi ayaw nilang maban sa game na un si ekwe. Pinaglaro pa rin nila si ekwe kahit na wrong uniform ang suot nito. Tama ba un? Anu tawag dun? Dishonesty o sa makatuwid pandaraya!!!
Alam mo ba ang kasabihan na “kung may baho kang tinatago lalabas at lalabas din to.� Yun ang nangyari sa Beda.
Kahit na sabihn pa nating harsh ang consequense ng rules. Still it’s the rules that we have to follow.
LDC huwag mo na nga patulan tong mga to kasi kahit ilan beses mo pa ipaliwanag sa kanila yun isyu hindi nila maiintindihan yun dahil ayaw nila intindihin
Whoever you are, LDC etc.
Uniform or Patch, It surely didn’t make a difference.
But the uniform Ekwe used was identical to the uniform prescribed —- except for the patch! Was it a slight difference or a big one? Yet the freaking penalty was so severe. Perhaps, severely malicious as well.
Analyze your logic and arguments please.
As I have said before, Congratualations on your “twisted” victory.
We’ll get you back on the hardcourt.
Payback is a bitch!
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 at 7:01 am
Hay naku ang haba-haba ng speech mo hindi mo naman maintindihan ang bottomline dito.
Ang isyu dito e ang UNIFORM hindi ang PATCH!
Kahit ano pa ang sabihin mo kayo pa rin ang mali dito. Bakit hindi sinabi ng coaching staff niyo sa league officials na nawala ang uniform ni ekwe? Kasi ayaw nilang maban sa game na un si ekwe. Pinaglaro pa rin nila si ekwe kahit na wrong uniform ang suot nito. Tama ba un? Anu tawag dun? Dishonesty o sa makatuwid pandaraya!!!
Alam mo ba ang kasabihan na “kung may baho kang tinatago lalabas at lalabas din to.” Yun ang nangyari sa Beda.
Kahit na sabihn pa nating harsh ang consequense ng rules. Still it’s the rules that we have to follow.
LDC huwag mo na nga patulan tong mga to kasi kahit ilan beses mo pa ipaliwanag sa kanila yun isyu hindi nila maiintindihan yun dahil ayaw nila intindihin.
Sam from San Diego Ca
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 at 6:03 am
Sam,
Funny that you mentioned good faith. Listen to what Ekwe admitted in the Mancom hearing:
On the morning of the game, he (Ekwe) discovered his jersey “stolen.� He immediately reported this to the coaching staff who instructed him to wear his old jersey while they fix the “problem.�
As is evident, Ekwe acted in good faith by telling the coaching staff. But that cannot be said of the coaching staff. In fact, the deliberate and dishonest act of the coaching staff carried a lot of weight in the Mancom imposing the forfeiture on SBC.
You also mentioned “compassion.� Again, it’s funny you should mention that because had it been an honest mistake on the part of the SBC coaching staff I’m sure the Mancom would have reconsidered the forefeiture penaly.
As you can see, clearly the SBC coaching staff’s action was, borrowing your own words, “intentional and in bad taste!� Thanks.
LDC or Whatever your name is,
First of all, I am not offering an excuse and if you are from St. Benilde, Congratulations on your victory that spawned from the mouthing and whining of your group. Celebrate your “twisted” victory.
JRC just beat us the other day and they beat us fair and square. They outsmarted us. Congratulations to them on a victory well done. They surely decided that game with their guts, cunning, and heart. Now, that’s what I call a genuine win and you cannot twist that.
Now, “What if” San Beda protested against JRC over the same issues St Benilde used against them? Should the Mancom reverse JRC’s victory? See how ridiculous that can be?
Well that’s still a win in the bag. Courtesy of the Benilde example. So Grab it!
Truth of the matter is, St. Benilde did not complain, but protested.
Had they had complained, they would have corrected the problem and disciplined the deserving. But they protested, so they were cleary fishing for something, and they got a big one.
So What Alma Mater is acting on Bad faith?
It’s true the Coaching Staff of San Beda should have been aware. No question. But that’s not to say they probably were not aware of it either… and in this granting if they were really aware, Should they have been penalized by a reversal of a win to a loss over a freaking 50 cent patch? My goodness. What logic.
And Why Protest at the end of the game, Why not at the start? Speaking of Malice.
I mean to think, do you ever read the rules and regulations of the NCAA like a prayer book? Do you ever keep this manual on your bedside and sleep well and tight with it? Do you ever use it for your thesis, Is that what normal people do? Hmmm… I doubt it but maybe we all should read it religously.
Is this NCAA rules and regulations manual thing a four year “BS” course in St. Benilde? Not so in San Beda.
Would a suspension and warning not suffice and justify the end to this?
No. St Benilde has to get the win and that’s the darn and glaring bottomline.
But Rules are Rules. That’s how rigid we should observe it “as if” no accidents like Ekwe’s don’t really happen on a daily basis.
So Blame the Rules. I say Blame the procedures as well.
Rules are not always consistent with the times. To implement and make sense at the same time, you have to be compassion to the equation.
“Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application.” - Martin Luther King.
Let me ask you LDC, Is this forefeiture consistent and self-serving with Sportsmanship and the supposed Brotherhood among schools? Is it consistent with reality as to who is really the better team that day?
You’ve got to be insane to say Yes.
And, You’ve got to be insane not to field Ekwe!
Fielding Ekwe in the game was malicious? the guy improvised in good faith by replacing it with another identical uniform vice the logo, so why punish him for being a victim of a theft? Why punish him for improvising? Why imply the Coaching Staff as shady and malicious? Would they have expected Benilde to cry and whine like a little girl over such a small freaking matter?
It’s easy to say ignorance is not an excuse.
Well who is offering an excuse? But if compassion is a factor here, Perhaps we will begin to realize this guy is foreign student who still has to familiarize with the rules.
He is a victim of theft, now you want to bench him? What’s that got to do with Athletic Sportsmanship and Competition.
“You’re not wearing the prescribed shirt, therefore you lose!” Is this Basketball or a competion for best uniform?
I mean, In the Spirit of Athletic Competition, Who would’ve thought that a School would whine or even PROTEST (not complain) over the absense of a freaking patch or logo.
True San Beda erred. But a Forfeiture as a penalty is so severe that I can’t help but think of malice.
Like I said, Logic solves disputes, not Politics.
Congratulations to St. Benilde for a well-earned, “twisted” victory. It was such a team work. A first of its kind.
Niccolo Machiavelli would’ve rose from his grave and congratulate you all with warm hugs and hand shakes.
By the way, I am not pissed. But I can’t to wait for my team to meet you guys again. Observe the game and the score and not how the athletes look.
We will make sure everyone is in their right uniform so CSB will be at their happiest moment.
Sam
San Diego California.
Chief Waka-waka
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 at 11:44 pm
ilibing na sa hukay, sunugin na at ikalat ang abo para makalimutan ang isyung ito.
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